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A federal manhunt is underway for Roy McGrath, once the chief of staff to ex-Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, after he failed to appear in court Monday for the first day of his trial on wire fraud and embezzlement charges. [snip] A law enforcement source tells CBS News that McGrath's family was at his home in Florida when FBI visited the house Tuesday morning. The source said his high profile and the widely circulating photos will make it difficult for him to remain at large. McGrath, 53, has been living in Naples, Florida, and was supposed to travel to Maryland for...

Nearly six months before he allegedly knocked Rick Moranis to the ground outside the actor’s Upper West Side apartment, Marquis Ventura was charged with an even more violent, unprovoked attack on a Bronx subway. “I could see he was crazy,” the victim in that attack, mom and restaurant manager Ashley Davis, told The Post. “I was telling the police — This guy’s not right. This guy’s got a mental illness.”

The homeless ex-con accused of sucker-punching actor Rick Moranis has allegedly been randomly attacking strangers in New York City for the past six months, it was revealed Sunday night. Marquis Ventura, 35, was arraigned on a slew of charges in Manhattan Criminal Court late Sunday, including an assault rap for knocking Moranis to the ground in the Oct. 1 attack on the Upper West Side. Prosecutors claimed that Ventura has been involved with a number of other unprovoked attacks — including one in lower Manhattan just hours after he allegedly pummeled the “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” star.

A suspect with a history of violence against strangers has been arrested for the random October assault on actor Rick Moranis near his Upper West Side apartment, The Post has learned. A sergeant assigned to Transit spotted Marquis Ventura, 35, at 96th Street and Broadway on Saturday and made the arrest; investigators were transporting the West Village man to Central Booking Saturday night. “Huh?” an unblinking Ventura responded to a reporter’s question, as detectives led him in handcuffs from the 20th Precinct on the Upper West Side at 8:30 p.m.

“Ghostbusters” star Rick Moranis, 67, got clocked by a passerby in an I [Heart] NY sweatshirt who punched him in the head without warning. Moranis, stunned, found himself picking himself up off the pavement on Central Park West with pain in his head, back and hip. Isolated incident, or the latest in a worrying trend? Aug. 23: A 66-year-old man was walking west on West 129th Street when a man came up and smashed him on the back of the head several times with a bottle. July 27: A 68-year-old woman standing on the L train platform at Sixth Avenue...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD confirms Rick Moranis was randomly attacked by a stranger Thursday on the Upper West Side. Police said it happened in broad daylight just before 7:30 a.m. on Central Park West near 70th Street. Surveillance cameras captured the attack on the 67-year-old “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” and “Ghostbusters” actor. Video shows the suspect walk up and punch Moranis in the head, knocking him to the ground. VIDEO AT LINK................... Police said he went to the hospital with pain in his head, back and hip. He later visited the precinct to report the crime. Now,...

Rick Moranis is leaving his decades-long hiatus from live-action acting to join Disney’s sequel to its 1989 blockbuster “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” Variety has confirmed. Moranis will reprise his role as Wayne Szalinski, the crackpot scientist who accidentally shrunk his children (and the neighbor’s kids), then accidentally made his infant child enormous in 1992’s “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid,” and then accidentally shrunk himself and his wife in the 1997 straight-to-video sequel “Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves!” — which was also the last time Moranis acted in a live-action feature. In the new film, which has the aptly condensed...

I ain't goin' nowhere(Geoff Mack/Rick Moranis) I never go nowhere, man I never go nowhere Traffic’s bad out there, man. I’m savin’ wear and tear. I like conditioned air, man I never go nowhere I go Upstairs, downstairs, backyard, lawn chairs, Living room, bathroom, bedroom, furnace room, Hot-tub, cedar deck, build a fire, washer/dryer, Pantry, patio, Bartiromo video, Cold cellar, rec room, ping-pong, mah jongg, Beer count wearin’ thin, speed dial, Order in. I ain’t goin’ nowhere, man. I ain’t goin’ nowhere It’s dangerous out there, man Might ‘a been a big bomb scare. Hard to get off of this...